I would recommend a 100MB or larger master device and sybsystemprocs device for 11.0.3.3. It will install just fine but if you try to start Sybase with more the 32MB of memory, it will fail. If you want to increase it you need to do two things:

Increase max shared memory (kernel.shmmax and kernel.shmall) in /etc/sysctl.conf – which we already did

Set the stack size to unlimited

Setting the stack size to unlimited is easy so in your RUN_server file:

Since this is SQL Server 11.0.3.3, we don’t have to mess with LD_POINTER_GUARD.

Why you would use such an old DBMS version? You might have software that requires this version and the software vendor went out of business or discontinued the software with no upgrade path. In any case, Sybase’s SQL Server 11.0.3.3 is still useful.

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Switching the disk ‘format’ from qcow2 to raw will increase performance slightly. Sadly, the virtio drivers are not available for such an old release of the kernel. The minimum kernel version for the drivers is 2.6.25. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio

I will test it on the same os release but a newer kernel in the next few days.

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